shellacked
English
Adjective
shellacked (comparative more shellacked, superlative most shellacked)
- Coated in shellac.
- 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page 41:
- At Boy Bar, the bouncers, two tall, emaciated young men with shellacked hair under their bowler hats, were standing just inside the door to escape the cold.
- (slang) Drunk.
- 2014, Maximillian Potter, Shadows in the Vineyard:
- Those were my first impressions of wine: Ladies drink chilled, soft white while they gossip in the kitchen; old men drink strong, room-temperature red to get shellacked.
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